Why Police Body Cams Aren’t What They Seem to Be

THE CRIME REPORT, 29 NOV. 2017, FEAT: PROF. SETH STOUGHTON:

“Everyone is coming to the body camera question with a totally different take on what these tools are going to be used for,” Prof. Seth Stoughton of the University of South Carolina Law School, who specializes in the regulation of policing, told us.

“The community thinks, ‘Hey, you got this for officer-accountability reasons, but all you’re using it for is to prosecute people.’ I think that has the potential to be taken as a failure, a betrayal.”